WDRB+WAVE vs WLKY News
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WDRB+WAVE
Access local news, weather, traffic, and sports from Louisville and surrounding areas. Stay informed with real-time updates, weather radar, and alerts. Submit your own stories to contribute to the community.
- Local news coverage
- Weather radar
- Real-time alerts
- Traffic updates
- Sports scores
- Story submission
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Download the power of the WDRB+WAVE right to your iPhone! WDRB+WAVE delivers local news coverage for Louisville and the rest of the Kentuckiana area. Features include: - Breaking news alerts - Live, local news headlines and stories - Live radar - Storm tracking - Sports - Video - And so much more! Also serving New Albany, Jeffersonville, Clarksville, Corydon, Sellersburg and Madison, Indiana along with Elizabethtown, Shepherdsville, Taylorsville, Shelbyville and Carrolton, Kentucky. This app requests location to help customize content for you. We will provide location information and information about your use of the app to our advertising partners in order to customize the ads displayed in this app and other apps you use. Please review our privacy policy for more details and for your choices.
WLKY News
Stay informed with breaking news and weather updates from Louisville and the surrounding areas. Receive real-time alerts, watch live streams, and access local news, sports, and traffic information. Submit your own news tips and photos directly to the newsroom.
- Breaking news alerts with push notifications
- Live streaming breaking news updates
- Local news submission area
- Up-to-date local weather and 7-day forecasts
- Interactive radar with storm tracking
- Share stories via email or social media
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Take the WLKY News app with you everywhere you go and be the first to know of breaking news happening in Louisville and the surrounding area. Always stay up to date with the latest local news, national, sports, traffic, political, entertainment stories and much more. Download the WLKY News app for free today. Our Local News, Weather and Sports App Features Include: - Louisville breaking news alerts with push notifications - Live streaming breaking news updates from our WLKY News reporters when it happens, where it happens - Local news submission area for breaking news, news tips and the ability to email your news photos and videos right to our newsroom to be featured on air - Up to date, current local weather conditions, hourly Louisville weather updates, and 7 day forecasts - Share stories via email or your social media pages - An interactive radar that lets you zoom in and out to street level and watch storms as they approach. Move the map around to see major weather activity - Louisville weather alerts and updates, WLKY weather videocasts and more Although Hearst Television believes the majority of its news content is appropriate for a variety of ages, it is intended for individuals 18 and older.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: WDRB+WAVE at #171 against WLKY News's unranked. WDRB+WAVE also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for WDRB+WAVE against 4.7 for WLKY News. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.4K and 4.5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 45% of WDRB+WAVE's written reviews are positive against 47% of WLKY News's.
WDRB+WAVE ships an update every 2 months, WLKY News monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WDRB+WAVE | WLKY News |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.4K ratings) | 4.7 (4.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.6% of reviews | 47.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.4K | 4.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #171 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gray Television Group, Inc. | Hearst Television |
Customer experience
WDRB+WAVE
WLKY News
Bugs and requests
WDRB+WAVE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
WLKY News
Reported bugs
6 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- App widget doesn't work. It doesn't load any information.
- The app keeps closing out when I click on weather
- App started locking up after a update over a month ago. Thought it could be my phone but after getting a new phone found the problem is with the app. When you click on a story it takes you to a white page that will not load. Just deleted the app and will choice from the other 3 local news app.
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- The screen freezes with a blank page when you tap onto an article and you have to exit out of the app, close the app, and then reopen app to be able to read the news article. It's frustrating!!! This is the 1st time ever that I've had issues with this app. Fix the issue or go back to previous past upgrade since this latest upgrade is worthless.
Requested features
3 requests- Weather app is not as good as competitors I wish you would have 7 or 10 day layout like weather channel or like you show on tv weather broadcast similar to channel 11 weather app👍
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
WDRB+WAVE
No in-app purchases
WLKY News
No in-app purchases
